Most people equate comics with superhero movies now. That adds another layer of difficulty for me. I haven’t seen a superhero movie since the first Tim Burton Batman film. They have blighted cinema, and also blighted culture to a degree. Several years ago I said I thought it was a really worrying sign, that hundreds of thousands of adults were queuing up to see characters that were created 50 years ago to entertain 12-year-old boys. That seemed to speak to some kind of longing to escape from the complexities of the modern world, and go back to a nostalgic, remembered childhood. That seemed dangerous, it was infantilizing the population.
This may be entirely coincidence but in 2016 when the American people elected a National Socialist satsuma and the UK voted to leave the European Union, six of the top 12 highest grossing films were superhero movies. Not to say that one causes the other but I think they’re both symptoms of the same thing – a denial of reality and an urge for simplistic and sensational solutions.
Alan Moore Rare Interview: “Superhero Movies Have Blighted Culture” – Deadline
Besides, GL has always worked better on TV, and since there was no indication in the announcement that the show shares the same continuity with the movie, unlike GCPD and Peacemaker that were both confirmed to be prequels from the get go, it probably doesn't make all the sense in the world to exclude the most popular characters of the franchise from the show. Saw some "scoopers" claim the show would take the slow build with Hal and hint at him before introducing him later on but it makes little sense to me to have one of the most well-known Lanterns and not announce him from the beginning.
